The way our world looks like today is a result of centuries and centuries of human migration, of complex natural phenomena that has resulted in the geographic appearance of the world’s continents ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. For urban transport planners like me, these are interesting ...

Urban Planning in the San Francisco Bay Area: In urban planning, timing is everything. Other visionaries had proposed spanning the Golden Gate long before Josepf Strauss laid out his scheme in 1919, ...

This “smell map” of London shows emission odors in red and natural scents in green. (Credit: Daniele Quercia, Rossano Schifanella, Luca Maria Aiello, and Kate McLean) This is your first of three free ...

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Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. We cohabit with a parallel society that commutes along subway rails, picnics in parks and ...

On New Year's Day, Edmonton will look much the same from the ground, but its map will have radically changed. Edmonton city council approved a complete zoning overhaul in October after days of ...